New Mystcraft vs old mystcraft?

[Bigpak]

I am debating on what one I should use to play with on my server for me and my cousin, The new mystcraft seems really really I guess you could say cheap? I mean the diamond tendrils really only costs a stack of emeralds, and then you have infinite diamonds iron gold etc. What one do you think I should choose for balance and fun? What one would you choose?

 

[SpitefulFox]

The cost of diamond tendrils is a world that crumbles to dust in front of you while you're trying to mine the diamonds.

 

[Bigpak]

You are able to go in there for atleast about 5 minutes grab a stack of diamond sand then generate a new world though. I am just honestly confused as to what I should use

 

[Azzanine]

This is just my opinion here, but you could really just go without Mystcraft. It's a great mod for exploration but things like the tendrils and dense ore can make the mod really cheaty corruption not withstanding.
Also the old Mystcraft had a rubbish method of page discovery that led to a lot of garbage worlds to clog up your hardrive that you had to clean up once and a while. Sure those garbage worlds tend to not get bigger then 4mb but they added up when you are questing for that dense ore rune. The new mystcraft has the same discovery mechanics only you can cut down on the garbage worlds by hunting/ trading for pages but it can still be a little cheaty.

Plus you don't wanna get reliant on mining worlds. I've came across people that are just unable to play without quarries and their very own dense ore world. They are a little sad to witness, "no mining world!? The game's unplayable now! nooo!".

 

[Bigpak]

I dunno about you but I usually go through and delete the trash worlds once a week or so and just keep the age.dat files since there only 1kb and your still able to keep all the symbols you would just have to technically go to that age again to get it again. I think I probably will stick with the new mystcraft I suppose. I really hope that the decay and meteors etc are actually a challenge and not some pushover like last time.

 

[Riuga]

New Myst. Intra Linking + Maintain Momentum + railcraft FTW.

Honestly, I just dont use a world if it randomly has dense ores (Found one that had no decay or any visible instability : O). Nether Quartz tendrils are as far as I use :/